This is so encouraging. Thank you for sharing your journey. It’s so hard to wrap my head around only doing five minutes at a time as someone who was an athlete, personal trainer - I’m just so hard on myself and it sounds so defeating to only do five minutes a few times a day. But this has been so helpful to watch💛
This is really encouraging to me. My symptoms were never super severe. I'd fall but not faint. I didn't even faint for the tilt table, though I thought I was going to. I just got diagnosed about 2 months ago. I started asking doctors what was wrong when I wasn't able to get out of bed most days with my first pregnancy 6 years ago. I was told it was normal pregnancy, postpartum, depression. Once I got the diagnosis, my doctor and I decided that with my history I've probably had minor symptoms up to 22 years. That's when I started bruising, migraines, fatigue. I'm so frustrated it's taken so many years to get answers but so relieved to have them and anxious to be able to find out what I can actually do to not only live my life but o be fully part of my kids life's too
Thank you for being so encouraging! I am so happy I found your channel and that you have a channel for me to find! It really is helping me to add in these things to my life every day, slowly. And you just give me hope that I can keep it up! So from the bottom of my heart, thank you! 😊
Hey! I’ve been watching your channel this week and I love your attitude and energy. I’m in a pretty dark place with my pots symptoms right now, and I’m seeking inspiration. I’m just curious if and how you dealt with brain frog along your recovery journey? I don’t know if this makes sense, but I often have trouble initiating and sustaining tasks because of my mental slowness, which is another challenge I’m facing with exercise routines. Often, I get frustrated when I lose track of what I’m doing or I get angry that I didn’t start my exercise sooner in the day, etc. any thoughts on this??
May I ask how active you were other than doing these exercises during this time? Like were you leaving the house and doing things in addition to short exercises? Or mostly homebound? I am in grad school with POTS and I feel like that takes up a lot of my energy so I haven’t been able to increase my exercise more. Thanks for your video!!
I had these same symptoms before and running helped a ton probably because it works nearly every muscle simultaneously. But I can't do high impact exercise anymore but I can do some while standing and after some injuries the blood pooling came back. Did you have any blood pooling in your hands and feet with spotty discoloration? What exercises helped the most to improve your circulation and venous return?
I used to get frequent headaches with pots, and that did get significantly better for me. I didn't notice any correlation between exercise and headaches personally, but everyone is different.
see, I am not deconditioned at all. I can go forever. I'll just feel like shit the entire time. Blurred vision fatigue dizziness memory problems. etc etc. only thing I can't do is run.
Holly Plyler Maybe it would help to find some different exercises to see of doing some strengthening would help. Maybe you do have some deconditioning and you are getting blood pooling when you run. Just an idea to consider. Have you ever tried swimming? I used to swim because it really helps with giving me that lower body compression because the water pushes on your body while you exercise. Getting out is hard for me though so I decided to stop. But if you tried it might point to pooling. Or maybe try some compression stockings while running? (or higher pressure ones if you do already) All ideas. Not a doc just a potsie myself! Good luck!
Brittany Kaldunski I can do leg presses at about 120 pounds and swim 30 laps without stop in a free style. I do 2 circuits at 90 lbs at my gym 3 times a week. I am NOT deconditioned... at ALL. my heart rate just jumps up to 150 bmp randomly throughout the day and I feel like shit. Please do not despense medical advice. you sound really pompous.
Holly Plyler I was not trying to be rude or "sound pompus..." so no need to be rude yourself. I just have been dealing with Pots for a long time and generally people in this community are open to a conversation about ideas . I did not know what you had been trying and was just sharing ideas as I said in my comment. Good luck with any future training. I hope you can get your running situation figured out...
